cubbyhole
/ˈkʌbiˌhoʊl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.62 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small compartment; a pigeonhole
noun
verb
To restrict, limit or narrowly define; to pigeonhole.
Example Sentences
- "To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books mingled with old damp cement and stale urine."
- "Rivera: The world has changed. It is no longer cubbyholed. I do not think — Friendly: What do you mean cubbyholed? Rivera: I do not think the definition of journalist is as narrowly construed these days as perhaps it was once."
- "A true Renaissance man, Walcott has consistently resisted being cubbyholed. He has rejected neither his Caribbean heritage nor his British education."
- "The Americans wanted to have enclosed offices, or at the very least, shoulder-high partitions cubbyholing individual desks."
- "And, if we do so, it would be useful to bear in mind Sloterdijk’s insights regarding the amphibian quality of discourse within the Weimar Republic and the compelling ways in which it eludes easy generalization and comfortable cubbyholing."
- "Delimited files and spreadsheets compartmentalize data by separating each piece of info with a comma or a tab, or by cubbyholing them into columns and rows in a spreadsheet file."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʌbiˌhoʊl/